You mean that empire which can’t pay it’s soldiers (who are ill-motivated conscripts), who’s once might submarine fleet is now rusting away in mothballs and who’s air force is full of aircraft fit for museums?

Pee-wee’s signature staccato laugh, dancing eyebrows and drainpipe pants were packed away in mothballs, while Paul Reubens the actor continued to work, drawing raves for performances like that of a wily dope-dealing hairdresser in the 2001 movie “Blow.”

Update, 1/20: Nick Pinkerton at Reverse Shot: "I love and respect this movie far too much for deadening hyperbole - such a mass of celluloid deserves its fair chance to engage a living audience before our sect of art-house obscurists ceremonially put it in mothballs."